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Protocol of a torture
Yes, a lurid title, I know. It occurred to me in the car, because I've been tempted by this review for a long time. Not out of malice, because I recognize of course that this perfume has many friends. To those, rest assured: it's just my opinion, exaggerated and yes, I have tested the fragrance. Several times. Unfortunately (from my point of view, of course).
One could unken, 2020 put on and already discontinued, that says a lot. One could think, due to my olfactory leather-loving I am now just bored whether in fragrances contained combinations of leather, saffron and fruit. One could declare that my gusto doesn't match that of the bulk of the crowd anyway, and at least the latter points may be true. Still, out of more than 2200 fragrances I've smelled, Velvet Cherry is subjectively the worst.
Why?
First: almond in perfumes I find quite bad. Then: Cherry in fragrances is Grenzwertig and here this was massively exceeded to the bad, to the unbearably kitschy. I wrote in the statement cherry-cashmere-cacophony. And almond. Or Kandel, for the alliteration buffs among us. Just reading that gives me a headache, because this synthetic cherry plonk here leads me straight to an aspirin or two.
Also helping to make this very strangely lousy performance is the saffron. Saffron can be beautiful, racy. It can also seem pale, boring and dead. Kind of like fresh tomatoes in sauce compared to tomato paste sometimes. You can taste it. Velvet Cherry respectively the saffron here is the leftover in the tube of tomato paste. Long forgotten in the refrigerator and in appropriate constitution.
Let's get to the almond: do you know this? You smell almond in perfume and you think, so that's how prussic acid smells. And then you think to yourself while enjoying this fragrance that it is a pity that is not included.
Ok ok, now I exaggerate this perhaps but the fact is quite simple that almonds can smell pleasant or quite chemical and penetrating, somewhere also musty. After what smells the almond note probably here? Tip: rather not so natural.
But from the beginning: Alone a smell sample on the sprayer reminds of em-eukal reminiscences in the now empty plastic packaging. Hardly sprayed on, saffron and honey act like a drunken ying & yang, you do not find each other. Instead, sweet-woody resins say hello and you actually want to close the door again but now they're there: as welcome as unannounced visits from relatives who live far away with deliberation.
But it gets worse. In the middle part quantities itself the now ADHD cherry, I mean "cherry" along with cashmere to it. The result is truly a penetrating sickening sweetness. As if vanilla, a bit of musk, woody-sweet elements and whatever else was there were mixed together. Out comes a cotton candy encounter of the mutant kind. Earlier, my phone wanted to autocorrect "broken" when I said "smelled". I'll leave it at that.
Basically, the problem in my eyes, it was applied too much of several similar ingredients. Cashmere and then musk, does it have to? Saffron plus leather but worse headache synthetic than in Ombre Leather? Add to that almond and fruity elements? Maybe too much for my nose. I mean, there's no smoke or fumes either. Anyway, this exuberantly garish quality stops at some point, and then you're left with kind of feminine musty-sweaty leather. Must also not be.
All in all: Velvet Cherry it is not for me. But that doesn't have to mean anything. Or maybe that's just a particularly clever way to sell my sample to someone in your ranks. Oud Burmi was yesterday, friends. Don't forget, this one's discontinued. 1 ml for a hundred, who's gonna say no? PN will do, thank you.
One could unken, 2020 put on and already discontinued, that says a lot. One could think, due to my olfactory leather-loving I am now just bored whether in fragrances contained combinations of leather, saffron and fruit. One could declare that my gusto doesn't match that of the bulk of the crowd anyway, and at least the latter points may be true. Still, out of more than 2200 fragrances I've smelled, Velvet Cherry is subjectively the worst.
Why?
First: almond in perfumes I find quite bad. Then: Cherry in fragrances is Grenzwertig and here this was massively exceeded to the bad, to the unbearably kitschy. I wrote in the statement cherry-cashmere-cacophony. And almond. Or Kandel, for the alliteration buffs among us. Just reading that gives me a headache, because this synthetic cherry plonk here leads me straight to an aspirin or two.
Also helping to make this very strangely lousy performance is the saffron. Saffron can be beautiful, racy. It can also seem pale, boring and dead. Kind of like fresh tomatoes in sauce compared to tomato paste sometimes. You can taste it. Velvet Cherry respectively the saffron here is the leftover in the tube of tomato paste. Long forgotten in the refrigerator and in appropriate constitution.
Let's get to the almond: do you know this? You smell almond in perfume and you think, so that's how prussic acid smells. And then you think to yourself while enjoying this fragrance that it is a pity that is not included.
Ok ok, now I exaggerate this perhaps but the fact is quite simple that almonds can smell pleasant or quite chemical and penetrating, somewhere also musty. After what smells the almond note probably here? Tip: rather not so natural.
But from the beginning: Alone a smell sample on the sprayer reminds of em-eukal reminiscences in the now empty plastic packaging. Hardly sprayed on, saffron and honey act like a drunken ying & yang, you do not find each other. Instead, sweet-woody resins say hello and you actually want to close the door again but now they're there: as welcome as unannounced visits from relatives who live far away with deliberation.
But it gets worse. In the middle part quantities itself the now ADHD cherry, I mean "cherry" along with cashmere to it. The result is truly a penetrating sickening sweetness. As if vanilla, a bit of musk, woody-sweet elements and whatever else was there were mixed together. Out comes a cotton candy encounter of the mutant kind. Earlier, my phone wanted to autocorrect "broken" when I said "smelled". I'll leave it at that.
Basically, the problem in my eyes, it was applied too much of several similar ingredients. Cashmere and then musk, does it have to? Saffron plus leather but worse headache synthetic than in Ombre Leather? Add to that almond and fruity elements? Maybe too much for my nose. I mean, there's no smoke or fumes either. Anyway, this exuberantly garish quality stops at some point, and then you're left with kind of feminine musty-sweaty leather. Must also not be.
All in all: Velvet Cherry it is not for me. But that doesn't have to mean anything. Or maybe that's just a particularly clever way to sell my sample to someone in your ranks. Oud Burmi was yesterday, friends. Don't forget, this one's discontinued. 1 ml for a hundred, who's gonna say no? PN will do, thank you.
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